Capacity architecture
Translate model footprint, request shape, concurrency, context, resilience, and budget constraints into a documented compute, memory, storage, and network topology.
SCALABLE MODEL HOSTING / SEPARATE ENGAGEMENT
Turn selected weights into an accountable serving system.
Blackfrost designs and implements model hosting around the artifact, workload, hardware, security boundary, and operating responsibility you actually have—not a generic infrastructure promise.
[ PRODUCT BOUNDARY ]
The model weights and the hosting system are separate products.
A Model Store purchase provides the licensed model-weight repository and the materials listed on that edition's product page. It does not include compute, an inference API, installation, hosting, deployment engineering, ongoing operations, or an SLA. Shadow CLI is a separate open-source Community project and is not bundled with either product.
[ HOSTING CAPABILITIES ]
Engineer the path from artifact to operated endpoint.
The scope starts with measured requirements. Specific technologies, topology, and support commitments follow from those constraints.Runtime and artifact fit
Select and configure the serving runtime, precision, parallelism, batching, cache strategy, and container boundary for the exact model artifact and target hardware.
API and deployment automation
Build the service interface, health checks, configuration path, secrets boundary, infrastructure definitions, and repeatable release and rollback workflow.
Scaling and queueing
Design admission control, queue behavior, autoscaling signals, routing, backpressure, failure isolation, and graceful degradation around the expected workload.
Observability and controls
Instrument service health, request flow, saturation, failures, and resource use while defining access, audit, retention, and customer-data boundaries.
Load validation and handoff
Exercise agreed traffic shapes and failure cases, record the tested configuration and known limits, and transfer implementation notes, runbooks, and recovery procedures.
CUSTOMER CLOUD
Build into your account
For teams that want their identity, network, data, compute, telemetry, and billing boundaries to remain under direct customer control.- Infrastructure and deployment definitions
- Service configuration and release workflow
- Validated handoff to the customer team
PRIVATE ENVIRONMENT
Fit the existing boundary
For private-cloud or on-premises environments where hardware, connectivity, access, logging, and data movement are constrained by policy.- Target-hardware and runtime fit
- Network, identity, secrets, and data-boundary design
- Documented limitations and recovery path
OPERATED SERVICE
Define responsibility explicitly
If Blackfrost is asked to operate part of the system after launch, ownership, escalation, maintenance windows, support coverage, and service objectives are defined in a separate agreement.- No implied managed service with a weight purchase
- Runbooks and operating roles named in scope
- SLA or on-call coverage only when contracted
[ DELIVERY PATH ]
Requirements first. Then architecture, validation, and handoff.
A hosting brief can begin with estimates. Final architecture and acceptance criteria are agreed before implementation.- 01
Profile
Define the artifact, request shape, traffic range, response goals, resilience, security boundary, target environment, and operating owner.
- 02
Design
Select the runtime, topology, API boundary, deployment path, capacity model, scaling signals, queue behavior, and failure controls.
- 03
Validate
Test the agreed workload and failure cases, record the configuration, and document observed constraints without turning estimates into guarantees.
- 04
Handoff
Transfer scoped code, configuration, infrastructure definitions, evidence, runbooks, recovery procedures, and known limitations.
STARTING INPUTS
Bring the artifact and operating constraints—even if the numbers are estimates.
A useful first brief names the model edition, target environment, request or task shape, expected concurrency or traffic pattern, response target, data restrictions, availability needs, launch timeline, and who will operate the service after handoff.HOSTING THAT FITS THE MODEL AND THE MISSION